Complexity Dichotomies for Counting Problems: Volume 1, Boolean Domain

Jin-Yi Cai (University of Wisconsin, Madison),Xi Chen (Columbia University, New York)

Complexity Dichotomies for Counting Problems: Volume 1, Boolean Domain
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
16 November 2017
Pages
470
ISBN
9781107062375

Complexity Dichotomies for Counting Problems: Volume 1, Boolean Domain

Jin-Yi Cai (University of Wisconsin, Madison),Xi Chen (Columbia University, New York)

Complexity theory aims to understand and classify computational problems, especially decision problems, according to their inherent complexity. This book uses new techniques to expand the theory for use with counting problems. The authors present dichotomy classifications for broad classes of counting problems in the realm of P and NP. Classifications are proved for partition functions of spin systems, graph homomorphisms, constraint satisfaction problems, and Holant problems. The book assumes minimal prior knowledge of computational complexity theory, developing proof techniques as needed and gradually increasing the generality and abstraction of the theory. This volume presents the theory on the Boolean domain, and includes a thorough presentation of holographic algorithms, culminating in classifications of computational problems studied in exactly solvable models from statistical mechanics.

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